32,000 households were without power from Sunday till night.
In X, electricity provider Elinet writes that the power outage has affected their entire area.
This meant that residents of the municipalities of Agra, Gjimnes, Hustatvika and Molde were partially without electricity during the night.
– Power failure! Statenet's supply to our area has failed and the entire area of Elinet is without power. We are in dialogue with Statenet and are working hard to identify the fault and restore power supply. They write in a message at 00:41.
In an email to VG, Even Blakstad, head of customer and communications at Elinett, writes that about 32,800 electricity customers are affected by the error.
The company says the fault was fixed at around 01:15, an hour after the power cut at 00:10.
– Now less than 100 customers are still without electricity, but this is from previous errors that have not been repaired, the company writes in X.
Blockstad in Elinet Romstal's Budstikke The power outage was huge.
– This is the biggest result our company has experienced in recent times. We have never experienced everything falling at once. I understand that people are worried, says Blackstad.
On Sunday night VG received several messages from several readers who claimed that Molde had been blacked out.
Leif Arne Mork, operations manager at the Møre and Romsdal police district, confirmed to VG that they had also received reports of power cuts.
– We've also received information from the Road Traffic Center that they've lost contact with some monitors, so it could appear to be a relatively extensive power outage, he says.
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